May 1905.

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NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY

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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

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Read at the Thirteenth Annual General Meeting, Thursday, June 28, 1906.

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THE COUNCIL have to report that the number of members and subscribers on the Society’s list is 536; a net increase of 28 over last year.  This is largely due to the additional support received from the Admiralty, which has increased the number of its subscriptions to fourteen, as well as to the accession of other departments of the public service and of public institutions, including

The War Course College, Devonport;

The War Course College, Portsmouth;

The Staff College, Camberley;

The University of Liverpool;

The Public Libraries, Cardiff;

The Public Libraries, Croydon;

and, in his private capacity, the Secretary of State for War.  The Society of Swedish Naval Officers, Stockholm, has also been admitted as a subscriber.

On the other hand, death has removed nine of our members, and among them two who have, from the beginning, been most active in furthering the ends and promoting the interests of the Society.  These are:—­

Captain MONTAGU BURROWS, R.N., Chichele Professor of History in the University of Oxford, and known to all of us as the author of the Life of Hawke; and

Rear-Admiral Sir WILLIAM WHARTON, K.C.B., Hydrographer to the Admiralty.

The names of the others are:—­

Sir W. LAIRD CLOWES;
Earl COWPER;
Lord CURRIE, G.C.B.;
Commander W.M.  LATHAM, R.N.;
Mr. C.A.  NANKIVELL;
Mr. G.R.  STEVENS;
Commander W.H.  WATSON, R.N.R.

While congratulating the Society on the improving appearance of the list, the Council would again urge on every member the necessity of his individual co-operation in the endeavour to make the work of the Society more generally and widely known.  To this end they also invite the assistance of the Press.  It is only by such increased publicity that the numbers, the funds, and therefore the work and usefulness, of the Society can be maintained.

Since the date of the last General Meeting the Society has issued: 

For 1905.  Vol.  XXX. The First Dutch War (Vol.  III.).  Edited by the late Dr. S.R.  GARDINER and Mr. C.T.  ATKINSON.

For this year it is proposed to issue The Reminiscences of Commander James Anthony Gardner, 1775-1806, edited by Sir R. VESEY HAMILTON; and Select Correspondence of Sir Charles Middleton, afterwards Lord Barham, edited by Professor J.K.  LAUGHTON.